Reading Xenofobia Through İmmigrations in Europe and Turkey

Abstract

One of the most devastating consequences of conflicts and instability in different parts of the world is that, it triggers forced mass migration across the country's borders. The migration movement is often oriented towards developed and developing countries. Due to its negative repercussions on regional relations, international security and diplomatic relations, it is also seen that countries have resorted to a number of measures aimed at preventing migration. Migration, which causes changes macro-level changes, also provoke reactions among locals the target country. There are a number of reasons for the reactions of the country and local people to opposition. Ethnic and religious identity, economic competition, cultural import, integration problems, crime rates, etc cause the anti-immigrant sentiment of local people and some politicians. In this study, the relationship between the aforementioned concepts and the phenomenon of migration will be explained and xenophobia, which has developed over Syrian immigrants in Europe and Turkey, will be examined.